[fpc-devel] bounty: FPC based debugger

[Jonas Maebe]

On 13 Sep 2011, at 12:59, Michael Schnell wrote:

> On 09/13/2011 11:06 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>>
>> GDB is built for supporting multiple languages. E.g., its ADA  
>> support has been much better than its C++ support for a long time  
>> (although C++ support is getting fairly good nowadays too).
> Unfortunately it seems to be hard (or close to impossible) to work  
> with the g* team(s) to have gdb (or gcc) provide Object Pascal  
> specific features :-( .

Don't insult people when you clearly don't have any experience  
whatsoever in working with them.

The gdb people have always been extremely helpful to Pierre, Joost and  
me whenever we had any questions whatsoever about how to add certain  
Pascal-specific functionality to gdb. And the gcc people have added a  
DWARF identifier for the i386 Borland calling convention in a header  
file that's imported by gdb so that it would be possible to add  
support for it to gdb (even though gcc does not support it in any way).

The only thing you can say is that it is not possible to order the GNU  
people to implement and maintain all kinds of specific features  
especially for us, even though their own interests or employers have  
no use or interest in those features. That is however perfectly normal  
for open source/free software projects, and that is no different in  
the FPC community.


Jonas